At noon, Yangzhou Futures Exchange suspended business, staff had meals and lunch breaks. People participating in futures trading left the exchange and went outside to find a place to pass the time. However, those who were in the "box" of the exchange can eat and rest in this private room called the big client room.

The "big customer" referred to here is not the "customer" corresponding to the main account in the household registration, but the meaning of the customer. The big customer engaged in futures trading is called a big customer. All "customer registration" in the transaction is like a distinguished customer who comes to visit and has preferential treatment.

They can direct traders to conduct futures trading in the large client room, or they can rest in the large client room with complete facilities. Although they eat the "work meal" provided by the exchange canteen, it is clean and delicious.

Rest in the indoors of major customers during lunch breaks can save a lot of time.

In the room of a large client, Ma Quan, the futures merchant, did not rest, but was reading newspapers. Now the court has revised the law to allow the doctoral students of the state and the assistant professor who has the power to speak for the supreme books and speak for themselves. He, like many people, is very concerned about the comments and articles in the newspapers today.

In other words, many merchants and children of illegitimate businessmen who run industry and commerce are very concerned about the revision of the law.

The revised law, temporarily called the "Mingde Law", has a lot of new content compared to the original "Da Zhou Law". For Ma Quan, what he cares most about is some terms related to household registration, property, and marriage.

First of all, there is "different wealth" and requires that any male family members get married, they must establish a separate business (including household registration). Since they have a separate business, they are allowed to have their own private money, and the family will not include decent industries in the name of cohabitation and common wealth.

Then the marriage only needs to be witnessed by both parties (grandparents, parents, uncles, etc.) and does not require the consent of both parties to the parties.

Moreover, if there is no time to witness, both men and women can get married, but they will be flogged forty times. The government admits the factual marriage. Even if the parents oppose it, they will not force the two to divorce, nor will they be sentenced to be sexual or raped.

The premise is to register in advance with the official government where the client (home address) is located, and to determine that the two people have a marriage in accordance with the relevant requirements of the law, and cannot be of the same surname, or the woman's deceased husband must be mourned for three years.

Among them, the government plays the role of "matchmaker".

Such clauses are quoted from the Regulations on the Management of Migrant Population, which the draft Mingde Law wants to turn them into a general clause.

In other words, even if it is not a customer, a man and a woman want to get married, she only needs to register with the government and review it, and then get married legally under the witness of a probationary kinship, without the consent of her parents.

As for not telling your parents, they registered in the government and did not testify against their parents when they got married, such a marriage was legal, but both men and women had to suffer forty flogging, which was the consequence of not suing their parents for getting married.

Even if the family does not recognize such a marriage, the government will also recognize it at the legal level. After that, when it comes to various household registration and property disputes, the two will be treated as formal couples.

Of course, once someone in both men and women deliberately conceals the truth, causing bigamy, or the man cheats marriage and mistreats in the name of marrying a wife, the punishment is also very severe: exiled to Australia for ten thousand miles and will not leave for life.

This is marriage. If the man takes a concubine, there are also a series of relevant regulations to ensure that all behaviors are legal.

In addition, it is the public prosecution system. Once the incident involves a relative's crime, no matter who the victim is, even if the victim and his family give up the lawsuit, the government will prosecute the officials as the plaintiff and pursue the crime of the relative's crime.

Ma Quan felt that this prosecution system was "a long drought and a rain of rain". He sincerely hoped that all new laws, including the prosecution system, would be established so that the common people in the world would have some dignity.

What is dignity?

Being able to support oneself does not need to look at the dignity of living by the family’s elders or the eyes of the clan;

If you can choose a spouse yourself, you don’t need to beg your father or your mother’s dignity, even if you have to be whipped for forty whips;

After being "successfully beaten to death" by his father, his legitimate mother, his elders or even his legitimate brother, at least someone comes out to uphold justice and will not die like a wild dog.

These dignities were once so far away.

As a maid, Ma Quan has a low status in the family and his father doesn't like him much, so he won't say anything about his mother, and the elders of the family will not take him seriously. As for the brothers, they just think he is a servant.

Although his biological mother was promoted to a concubine, she had a very low status and was only a little better than a slave. The mother and son struggled in this big family and lived in a humble manner.

Li, demanding that the father be kind and filial, demanding that the brothers be kind and respectful, and demanding that the elders be kind and care for the young and humble. However, when the father beats and scolds him at will, the elders scold him at will, and the legitimate brothers insult him at will, the etiquette disappears.

No matter how hard he tried to please his father and serve his brother humbly, it was natural that he suffered, but the family affection he should have enjoyed was not given to him except for his biological mother.

Living together and sharing wealth makes it rare for the concubines to enjoy the blessings of the clan’s property. The parents must decide the major marriages, making the concubines like pigs in a pigpen, and their marriages can only be eaten with leftovers.

The big family should be warm, but in terms of the experiences of Ma Quan and his friends, the big family is cold to the children of the other branches and the illegitimate children. Many people, including Ma Quan, have an idea, that is, "I can't afford to offend, I can always hide, right?"

Instead of living like a pig or a dog in the family, it is better to go out and go out to work, do business, and get a bite of food and strive for the dignity of living decently. Is that okay?

However, "ritual" restricts them and cannot separate their families and establish a separate account (household registration). Grandparents and parents should not have their own private wealth because this is wrong.

Therefore, even though Ma Quan and many people have made a name for themselves, the industry they created, theoretically, can be investigated by their father, and it is still a family property.

My father wants you to take money to help your brother. Even if that brother insulted you and looked down on you, how dare you not give me?

My father wants you to support your brothers, take your brothers to do business, and ask your brothers to go to the trading house or factory to help. Do you dare to disagree?

If you don’t give or disagree, it means you don’t listen to your father. If you say a few more words and start arguing, your father says you are disobedient and unfilial and beat you to death. If you report a casual killing, nothing will happen!

Thinking of this, Ma Quan's breathing became rapid. He knew the murder case in Yangzhou before. Jiang Yiqiu, the other party's experience made all the merchants who came from a concubine and went out to work hard on their own.

Ceremony requires living together and wealth, sons require obedience to their father, brothers and brothers respectfully, and when the family property is divided, all sons share equally.

But in fact? No matter how they are polite sons, when their fathers, elders, and legitimate brothers do not abide by the etiquette, the clan's birth is not divided, and when their fathers are not divided, they can only bear it and dare not disobey anything.

At this time, the elders and brothers who do not respect the courtesy will not be punished.

It's okay. Even after you come out and take huge risks, you finally buy some industry. The so-called relatives come to take advantage of you, but you can't help but give it to you.

No matter how bad a father treats his son, he is always the father. The son must be filial and be beaten. When his father is old, he must support him. Ma Quan does not deny this.

But he believed that it was unreasonable that this "ritual" only requires me to pay. When my rights were infringed, I didn't know where the "ritual" went.

Is it because I am a concubine and a humble child that I deserve all my experiences?

Of course, many large families do not regard the concubine's son as an enemy enemy. It is generally a phenomenon that the concubine's son is not as good as the legitimate son.

An extreme example is like Jiang Yiqiu who was "mistaken" by his father, leaving behind a helpless wife and children. Facing the so-called relatives who were like wolves and tigers, if they were not for their family members, the orphan and widowed mother would probably have been swept out of the house.

Poor Jiang Yiqiu, because of his status as a concubine, he did not understand much family affection when he was young. When he grew up, he went out to explore and finally got a family, but his life came to an abrupt end.

Although the government could not find evidence to prove that Jiang's father was deliberately killing his son, Ma Quan was knowledgeable and felt that there must be something strange about this matter.

When Ma Quan thought that a good person was not rewarded, he became irritated and threw the newspaper aside and spread it on the couch in a daze.

He made a name for himself by his ability. His relatives who had never liked him suddenly became enthusiastic. Although Ma Quan despised him, facing his father's request and the so-called family affection, he could only give in vain and help if he could.

Fortunately, he makes money by speculating in futures. This kind of thing depends entirely on personal understanding. Therefore, Ma Quan has become an irreplaceable money tree for his family. His wife has a prosperous family, so there will be no risk of accidents like Jiang Yiqu and his family property being taken away.

He had the honor of reading the draft "Mingde Law" part, carefully pondering it, and giving guidance from a doctorate in Texas, and roughly understood: just as he saw and learned, the court established a new law to support the people of the world and the children of the people.

It requires different families to have different wealth, marriages are independent (relatively), and the sons are required to divide the family into equal parts, and advocate protecting the private property of family members. This part alone is to ensure the basic rights of the side branches and the concubines, so that they have a choice.

You can choose to free yourself from the constraints of the big family.

Don’t ask for some benefits from the family property, don’t ask for inheriting the father’s inheritance, come out to find food, earn money, and live your own life. If you should be filial to your parents, you should be filial to your parents. Should you always have this right?

You can't deserve to suffer because I am a concubine, right?

It’s not that because I am a illegitimate child, my father beat me to death is no different than killing a dog, right?

Like many people, Ma Quan is eager to implement the provisions of the new law. They either want to obtain the benefits of the division of family products or want their rights to be protected.

I even hope that the implementation of the new law will allow my father to show mercy when he teaches himself a lesson, and he will not hit someone at the head or kick someone in the crotch.

Now, there are many so-called clear streams that criticize many clauses in the new law in newspapers, especially those of "participated from different sources" and "public prosecution system" and other clauses, which are the key points of criticism.

Ma Quan was a little worried about this, but not very worried, because today is different from the past, and the power of agreeing with the terms of the new law is also very powerful.

The most important point is that His Majesty is on their side, otherwise the draft would not have such clauses.
Chapter completed!